At snack and mealtimes, we aim to provide a relaxed atmosphere and time to taste and try new and healthy food options, whilst speaking with friends and staff.
We offer a wide range of healthy options for snack each week. This is the menu for the week ahead.
The ladies from Shetland Pre-School Home Visiting Service have visited us this week again for our Signalong session. This week the theme was food.
We sang 10 fat sausages, and heard the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. This helped us speak about the food items and learn the signs. The ladies left us with some games to play, to practice the signs, including a magnetic fishing game, and a story maker to illustrate all the items the very hungry caterpillar ate.
If you want to practice these at home too, these are the signs we have been learning this week:
Here are some photos of the session with the PSHVS ladies.
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Although this has been a shorter nursery week than usual with the long weekend, there has been no let up in the engagement with play and the opportunities that leads us to with our learning.
There has been continued enthusiasm for our construction and block play areas, both the smaller blocks indoors and the larger, hollow blocks in our “indoor/outdoor” area. The bairns made a campsite from the large blocks this morning, as they continued to think about where they might go on their holiday travels around the isles.
What a lot of stories we have read this week, and have enjoyed sharing a quiet space to look at books, retelling stories and also drawing pictures of some of the characters we read about. Lots of wonderful discussions, and some really good listening too.
We have really enjoyed transporting water into the stone chips area, as well as filling up the different sized containers. We have explored lots of different ways to make marks and patters. We have also really enjoyed lots of games and different ways to play together this week too. This has helped us to create lots of lovely things, learn or develop our skills, take turns and share our time and resources as well.
We have been in the hall for gym lessons again this week. We used our bodies to move in different ways.
Transition activities are also continuing very gently, as we take every opportunity to visit the school, meet the people who go there to work and learn, and look through the window into the Primary 1 classroom.
We have enjoyed meeting some of you on line for parents/carers evenings this week too. Another very busy week has come to an end. Have a lovely weekend everybody.
We finally were able to spot the swans this week on one of our walks within the community! We were so delighted with the fine day on Wednesday and the chance to feed the swans. If you look really closely you might be able to spot them too.
We also had a chance to see and speak about our shadows with the arrival of the sun again this week. Real life experiences, are always our first point of conversation with children as it helps us all put experiences in context. There is no better way to understand weather, science and nature, than to be outside in it to learn.
We really enjoy eating our delicious and very healthy snacks. In the last week, we have enjoyed making and tasting fruit kebabs and a cracker and fruit ” layered cake”.
The selection we have available is a great way for all children to try new foods, tastes and textures at our sociable, nursery-family kitchen table.
Our Snack Menu for the week ahead is here:
Children and staff have really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day at Nursery today. The option to dress up proved a popular choice, and there were so many great characters from favourite stories and books to be seen.
Nursery staff were able to read some of the particularly popular stories to children which was much enjoyed.
The love of books, characters and stories is clear to see.
We can’t wait to use our new picnic table, which comes complete with a race track and sand pit. Expertly made by Mr Brian Smith and delivered to Nursery this morning.
Thursday 3 March is World Book Day. Bairns can come to Nursery dressed as a book character (or any costume), if they like. They could also bring a favourite book to share (please ensure their name is on it, so it can be returned to them).
We hope to celebrate Pancake Tuesday on Friday this week!
